we will talk to, well, why not senator charles grassley.fter all he happens to be the senator for iowa. so i think we will just bring him on and talk to him when we come back. stay with us. >> mike: well, we are back and we are in waukee, iowa. really enjoying this fantastic group of people who are with us on this live broadcast. [ applause ] >> mike: and i'm especially delighted to be able to welcome to our show senator charles grassley of iowa. >> thank you. >> mike: senor, you have seen politics many, many years and every presidential candidate has to come through iowa if he or she ever wants to make it to the big show. mitt romney has now become our nominee and made his selection today. paul ryan is going to be the vice presidential pick. your reaction? >> i cheer it because of the condition with the trillion and a half dollar debt, the national debt, $15 trillion. we have got to have somebody like mr. ryan, congressman ryan who can bring to the eye tension of the american people -- to the attention of thamerican people how bad this is

senator grassley? >> senator grassley. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. i remember one we had last year that was a valuable would just as brighter and justice scalia. very valuable. it will be valuable to have you here as well. i am glad to greet you for coming. you are not only the first woman to serve on the supreme court. you are the first supreme court justice i had the privilege to vote for. >> for heaven's sake. >> i can say this, looking back after all of your years of service, your performance justified the confidence we placed in you. we would like to believe that our judges whose independence is guaranteed by the constitution rule based only on the constitution and the other policy preferences. judicial independence was established to make the courts independent of the other branches and independent a popular view. it is not designed to make judges independent of the constitution so that they can impose their policy preferences. we hear that if only our citizens properly understood the rule of courts, unprecedented attacks on rulings would vanis

we will talk to, well, why not senator charles grassley.fter all he happens to be the senator for iowa. so i think we will just bring him on and talk to him when we come back. stay with us. >> mike: well, we are back and we are in waukee, iowa. really enjoying this fantastic group of people who are with us on this live broadcast. [ applause ] >> mike: and i'm especially delighted to be able to welcome to our show senator charles grassley of iowa. >> thank you. >> mike: senator, you have seen politics many, many years and every presidential candidate has to come through iowa if he or she ever wants to make it to the big show. mitt romney has now become our nominee and made his selection today. paul ryan is going to be the vice presidential pick. your reaction? >> i cheer it because of the condition with the trillion and a half dollar debt, the national debt, $15 trillion. we have got to have somebody like mr. ryan, congressman ryan who can bring to the eye tension of the american people -- to the attention of the american people how bad this

general - an atf supervisor wanted to bury the information, saying "my thought, don't release it" grassley says: "if there isn't enough concern regarding a border patrol government agent being murdered than you can see there is less concern of the murders going on south of the border. "la jeunesse says: "the justice department claims the report distorts the facts - and repeats debunked conspiracy theories. the next report, still weeks away, focuses on the deputy attorney general and the final report

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((nat sot charles grassley(r)/iowa senator ))in washington if heads don't roll, nothing changes...can lawmakers began assessing blame tuesday in operation fast and furious, singling out five top atf officials.accusing director ken melson of being aloof...deputy billy hoover of being derelict in his duties...assistant bill mcmahon of giving false congressional testimony ...head of operations mark chait of failing to supervise....and phoenix agent in charge bill newell of incompetence((nats bill newell))issa: are they lying or are you lying?newell: in this investigation, it is my opinion we didn' t let guns walk..newell's attorney has always thought the investigation was political. pelletier says: "it's a witch hunt about a false premise of guns walking. "the report also says the death of border patrol agent brian terry could have been prevented... claiming gun smuggler jaime avila lied about his address when he first purchased fast and furious weapons. that lie would have allowed the atf to stop or arrest him - 6 weeks before he bought the guns found at terry's murder.the report als

senator grassley, there is a reason for what happened.candidate, mitt romney has once again sold his opinion to the highest bidder and this time, it is the oil industry. romney decided that wind energy and the 75,000 american jobs that go with it are expendable. and announced this week he's against that very tax credit, the tax credit getting wind energy off the ground. by the way romney is also getting really lousy political advice. he's alienating four big wind energy states which, by the way are also key swing states, iowa, senator grassley, pennsylvania, ohio colorado where he was today and today when he was there, he gave lip service to energy independents and he uttered the word -- uttered the word renewables. big deal! it is absolute bunk. his policy eliminating the tax incentive for wind would also eliminate renewable energy jobs. he wants to drill baby, drill right into the koch brothers' wallets but he deceptively hid this fact from the colorado crowd that he is going to kill their wind industry. colorado's home to 5,000 wind en

>> senator grassley. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for holding this hearing.remember one we had last year was very valuable. it's valuable to have you here as well. i tried to greet you for coming. you were not only the first woman to serve on the supreme court, you were the first supreme court justice i ever had a chance to vote for in my first vote for confirming somebody and i can say this, that looking back after all of your years of service, your performance justified the confidence the senate placed in you. we would like to believe that our judges whose independence is guaranteed by the constitution, rules based only on the constitution and not on their policy preferences, judicial independence was established to meet the court's independence of the other branches and independent of popular view is not designed to make judges independent of the constitution so that they can impose the policy preferences. we hear that if only our citizens properly understood the role of the courts on the unprecedented tax on the judicial rulings advantage this is a view t

chuck grassley, like him or not the republican senator from iowa iowa brought it up beauty.stock act left the senate and went to the house eric canter, world class crook pulled out the part that would have stopped the sale of political intelligence--it would not stop it, but people would at least have to registered as lobbyists and tell who they're telling this information to. he jerked it out. the reason why was because he has a whole bevy of contributers who are getting rich in this billion dollar industry. and it's legal. of course, the system that allows it to be done is criminal. of course, you know, eric canter took the house version, and went to a different section of it and exempted his wife in the famous spousal exemption move. i mean, it's unbelievable that people can get by with this. last thursday night in the last vote before recess he had gotten caught. so what he is it was then he removed the spousal exemption. the reason he did it at that time was so he could get out of town and not answer to the press for what he did. and it's a shame. you know, i started ou

senator charles grassley, an outspoken critic of the fda's oversight of pharmaceutical companies.r not exercising enough authority. >> fda is in the position of policing entire operation. they are the 900-pound gorilla. they need to act like a 900-pound gorilla. >> grassley believes the fda needs to get involved early in the planning and supervising of clinical trials, not just review drug company test results after they are done. >> they don't oversee those clinical trials until most of them are completed. then they see the results. to what extent can they trust the results? >> the fda responded in a statement that it is already strongly engaged in the clinical research process from inspecting drugmakers and their contractors to monitoring drugs after they're approved for sale. the agency also said it's establishing international offices to improve its ability to oversee the growing number of foreign drug trials. former fda commissioner david kessler says the fda still sets the gold standard. >> can the average american trust the quality of the new medicine that they may be presc

senator grassley will join us in 30 minutes. it is all new, and all live. it is "happening now.". it is a tough way to start but it is our top story. just telling everybody there is more waste of taxpayer funds. rick: i will let you talk about that. jenna: that's what it is. we'll have to tell you more how your hard-earned tax dollars have been wasted apparently by the gsa we're glad you're with us everybody. i'm jenna lee. rick: i'm rick folbaum in for jon today. uncovering new information about the spending scandal at the general services administration, the gsa. it is not just lavish conferences like the one gsa administrator jeff neely organized, the infamous picture relaxing in the vegas hot tub during a conference recently. turns out the agency doled out big bonuses to government workers at a ritzy affair. totaling more than 3 1/2 million dollars with the taxpayers footing that bill as well. there are reported bonuses $30 all in one year. a hearing talking about that. doug mckelway on capitol hill. are the bonuses typical of all government agencies or just the gsa? >> report

d stice conor would yield to myl friend senator grassley. barry barry goldwater was a good friend, i had his request, i moved in to his old office. i've been there for thirtyears. years. you would be delighted to hear all the good things he said about you.ould some in the language i won'tl repeat in the hearing. you know barry. >> senator grassley? >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman for holding this hearing, and it yo remember one we had last year that was very valuable with briar and sco lea valuable. juse very valuable to have you here as well. va i'mle glad to greet you for havo coming. >> thanks.he >> you were not only the first woman to serve on the supreme court, you're the first supreme court justice i had a chance tor vote for. >> for heaven's sake. fst >> my first vote for the to vo confirming somebody to the supreme court. and i can say this, looking bac. after your year's of service your performance justified the confidence that the senate placed in you. we would like to believe our ourges who independents is guaranteed by the

we ran in to senator chuck grassley of iowa represented the state for so long and knows how the folks here react to paul ryan's selection as a vice presidential nominee and here's what senator grassley told us this afternoon. >> i think the impact in iowa's going to be that he's mid western. people feel that he's a person that can be trusted. but the midwest person thing is mid westerners like straight shooters and he is a straight shooter. >> reporter: and guys, we are getting the first snapshot here of national polling over the weekend of what the pick of paul ryan is doing to the campaign. it's not a very good picture from paul ryan's perspective from the "usa today"/gallup poll out today. the poll on paul ryan shows 42% of respondents view him as a fair or poor voice in the vice presidency. 39% view him as pretty good or excellent and the poll says that all vice presidential picks since 2000 had a higher score than paul ryan. that's an area where they want to see improvement of the romney campaign and say that the folks are now more likely to vote for mitt romney as a result of th

grassley. senator grassley. >> mr. gensler, it's been reported that the cft conducted examinations in 2006 and seven. to the cftc conducts tse examinations? and if so, why didn't they find out their bank statements were matching up with what was exactly in the bank account? and if? and could be independently account balances with peregrine's bank? >> senator, we have looked at. we have done a number of views, some in the late 90s and the two you have mentioned in the past decade as well. these are not obvious. we rely on the front-line regulators, the nsa and also the a cpa. so it is correct that we could not verify bank statements. sometimes we look at anti-money laundering things le in 2010 was another review. sometimes we end up with an enforcement action, like in 2000 we ended up with an enforcement action against peregrine that was settled back then 12 years ago. looking back on it workpapers i wonder if after that flags of what as better caught in 1999 and 2000 so forth. so at the same question you have abetter r

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chuck grassley and his wife have been married 58 years. we are celebrating at hickory house in waterloo, where we went many times when dating. congratulations to the happy couple. there you have it, the best of the rest. coming up, an unusual new ad in the presidential campaign. it is not negative. what is it? find out, next. i had hoped that the new president would bring new jobs. not major layoffs, not people going through major foreclosures on their homes. he did get his healthcare through, but at what cost? he said he was going to cut the deficit in his first term. i've seen zero interest in reducing spending. he inherited a bad situation, but he made it worse. i think he's a great person. i don't feel he is the right leader for our country, though. i still believe in hope and change, i just don't think obama's the way to go for that. the president has not earned re -election, in 2012, in my book. i've seen his now definition of hope and change. it's not the hope and change i want, and it's not the hope and change i thought i was going

grassley: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: i'm going to take a unanimous consent request dealing with the same subject, but before i do that, i'm kind of astounded that it took 100 days for the majority to decide the bill that they wanted to send to the house would be blue slipped because they kept saying so long well, it really wasn't summing to blue slip. obviously the constitution gives the house of representatives the power to make that decision and they made the decision that the fee that's in this bill would keep it from being seangtd by the -- being accepted by the house of representatives. now, they obviously overcome that problem but they haven't overcome some other problems that are with the legislation and my reason for objecting tore people on my side that -- for people on my side that voted against this bill because of some unconstitutional provisions that are in it and -- and issues that don't have to be brought up to guarantee that there's adequate legislation for violence -- fighting violence against

. >> reporter: senator charles grassley, ranking member of the senate judiciary committee, wants answers. >> i think it's about time that the department of homeland security comes clean and admits that this program isn't running because the longer they try to mislead congress when the truth comes out, the more egg they're going to have on their face. >> reporter: todd kyle, who told us about the problem, says he was forced to resign in february. the department of homeland security wouldn't comment officially, scott on his resignation. >> pelley: fascinating, armen. thank you. a star is born. an american gymnast has a very special night when we come back sarah... will you marry me? i think we should see other people. in fact, i'm already seeing your best friend, justin. ♪ i would've appreciated a proactive update on the status of our relationship. who do you think i am, tim? quicken loans? at quicken loans, we provide you with proactive updates on the status of your home loan. and our innovative online tools ensure that you're always in the loop. one more way quicken loans is engineered t

governor romney, governor barber governor huckabee secretary tommy thomas, and senator grassley all supportedse kinds of waivers for states in the past. given this long documented history of bipartisan support it is surprising to say the least to see flip flopping on the part of the republicans. >> cenk: who is right? is it romney saying, oh my god obama wants to loosen the rules on welfare so he can give people checks for not working at all! or is carney right? well, we have documents to prove it here as to who is right and who is wrong. that's what i love about this show. we give you the facts. in 2005 the republicans wrote a letter, a lot of governors did asking for quote flexibility to manage their tanf programs, that's the welfare program and increased waiver authority. now, listen to what president obama pushed for in this proposal in 2012. watch. quote greater flexibility in tanf that's the welfare program program, and grant states waivers. that would appear to be nearly ideal language. well, what president obama did was give the republicans exactly when they wanted. in fact, back in 2

republican senator charles grassley said "i felt it was just like a knife in my back." the white house sees this as a winning issue. >> so i want to stop giving $4 billion in taxpayer subsidies that are going to oil companies that are making huge profits and have been subsidized for a hundred years and let's keep on investing in the new homegrown energy that's creating jobs right here in iowa. >> reporter: but governor romney has accused mr. obama of favoring renewables at the expense of more proven energy sources like coal which produces 35% of the nation's electricity. >> there's a time for truth. if you don't believe in coal, if you don't believe in energy independence for america then say it. >> reporter: today governor romney met with coal miners in bealsville, ohio, and said the administration's strict new emissions regulations issued in march are forcing plants to close because it's too expensive to retro fit them. and mr. romney made this ambitious promise about his energy plan. >> by the end of my second term... (cheers and applause) i make this commitment. we

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grassley. senator grassley. >> mr. gensler, it's been reported that the cft conducted examinations in 2006 and seven. to the cftc conducts these examinations? and if so, why didn't they find out their bank statements were matching up with what was exactly in the bank account? and if? and could be independently account balances with peregrine's bank? >> senator, we have looked at. we have done a number of views, some in the late 90s and the two you have mentioned in the past decade as well. these are not obvious. we rely on the front-line regulators, the nsa and also the a cpa. so it is correct that we could not verify bank statements. sometimes we look at anti-money laundering things like in 2010 was another review. sometimes we end up with an enforcement action, like in 2000 we ended up with an enforcement action against peregrine that was settled back then 12 years ago. looking back on it workpapers i wonder if after that flags of what as better caught in 1999 and 2000 so forth. so at the same question you have a bet

leading republican, chuck grassley and congressman lamar smith released this statement. saying while potentially millions of illegal immigrants will be permitted to compete with american workers for jobs, there seems to be a literal if any mechanism preventing fraudulent applications and the program beginning this month before promises of what is going to be a tight election white house print one in which the hispanic vote will be pivotal. joining us now is josÉ antonio vargas. featured this month. >> the cover of time magazine. the piece entitled we are american, just not legal. it is good to have you here. >> is very great be here. lou: did you hear the president say that he is like a crusader there -- he didn't do anythinge. immigration when he had the house and the senate. he doesn't do anything on the three, he can do anything that is effectively implemented for probably three years by making a sublic announcement last friday. you have to be sorely. disappointed in the sky. >> actually, i am not. because -- [talking over each other] lou: are you still undocumented?

senator grassley. >> you did bring up the election of state justices. is what you said leaning more towards the federal system than what the states do? >> well, many states still have appointment system for state judges. it includes a system where after many years on the bench, the judge goes on the ballot in the state where voters can decide whether to retain the judge, yes or no. that is the system we have in arizona. that is the system that i helped develop in my prior years in arizona. voters have a chance to look at the record of the judge and say, do you want to keep this judge? yes or no? not many have been turned out of office in that system. i think it is a perfectly balanced system for a state to adopt. the federal system does not have that. you did not have a system where after a few years on the supreme court of the voters in america can have a chance to say whether justice should be retained or not. i think the federal system has worked very well. i am not proposing any change. but those states to use retention elections have had pretty goo

grassley: the president and c.e.o. of smithfield foods, larry pope, took to the opinion pages of the "wall street journal" again to blame all the ails -- all that ails him on the renewable fuels standard for ethanol. some may recall that he did the same thing back in april 2010 when commodity prices were rising. at that time, he perpetuated a smear campaign and blamed ethanol in an attempt to deflect blame for rising food prices while boosting smithfield's profits. and, of course, with this newspaper article, he's back at it again. i start by referring to mr. pope as "henny-penny" from the children's folktale, "chicken little." every time that smithfield has to pay a little more to america's corn farmers to feed his hogs, mr. pope starts up with the same argument that the sky is falling and it's all ethanol's fault. mr. pope's opinion piece in the "wall street journal" might lead some to believe that he's very knowledgeable about the ethanol industry, but there are many areas of ethanol that he doesn't know much about.

leading republican, chuck grassley and congressman lamar smith released this statement. saying while potentially millions of illegal immigrants will be permitted to compete with american workers for jobs, there seems to be a literal if any mechanism preventing fraudulent applications and the program beginning this month before promises of what is going to be a tight election white house print one in which the hispanic vote will be pivotal. joining us now is josÉ antonio vargas. featured this month. >> the cover of time magazine. the piece entitled we are american, just not legal. it is good to have you here. >> is very great be here. lou: did you hear the president say that he is like a crusader there -- he didn't do anythinge. immigration when he had the house and the senate. he doesn't do anything on the three, he can do anything that is effectively implemented for probably three years by making a sublic announcement last friday. you have to be sorely. disappointed in the sky. >> actually, i am not. because -- [talking over each other] lou: are you still undocumented?

. >> krchuck grassley, chuck grassley's staffstaff. >> i don't think thee people are dumb.e bad or evil. i think they represent and are captured by so many of them come from that what's good for the big five banks that there's going to be a natural clash between someone -- i was paid to look out for the interest of the taxpayer and to protect these programs from waste, frau, and abuse. and i was seququinty-eyed. i was suspicious. my concerns were not valid because the banks would never risk their reputations. they would never embarrass themselves. each of my roommates said that exact same line over and over again. but look. i want to be very cleefrmt patriotic americans, they sacrificed to serve their country. it's not personal about them but that problem of captured ideology which rewards that attitude with big pots of gold at the end of the wall street rambo when they leave and the ideology they bring in. that's part of the broken system that needs to change. >> i think what comes out of it is it's a question of do you go into this in the wake of the financial crisis, in

gerri: tom grassley, the california treasurer spokesman said this to say.ere is a willingness to step bondholders. it's not accurate. nobody wants to have the reputation. it closes the mark you for a long time. i guess that is true. on the other hand, if you are the poor guy who has raised taxes on a bunch of the people in your city, you just may not want to go down that road. >> yes, this is one of those things that we have nothing to fear, really. bankruptcy is a long recognize an honorable -- recognized way to get out of the crush of situation. gerri: we are talking about california, my friend he met donald trump is not a californian. the problem at hand -- we are seeing the same thing in scranton, pennsylvania, edging towards vagrancy, jefferson county, alabama, a landmark court case over it. only 24 states allow cities to go bankrupt at all. interestingly enough, another rating agency has stopped drawing a distinction between states that illegally allow municipal bankruptcy and those who do not. one way or the other, you have to go bankrupt, it's going

according to senator grassley and congressman issa, another officer is working full type for j.p. morgan be and the a.t.f. has him on the payroll. now, live to los angeles. william, how did that happen? >>reporter: it is not supposed to happen so the lawmakers want to know who approved it. one of the few people with direct oversite responsibility for fast and furious is now being paid a six-figure salary by taxpayers, and given permission to take full time gig as director of global security at j.p. morgan, also, for six figures in the philippines so he can retain his lucrative government pension when he retires. he knew a.t.f. was funneling the gunses illegally and knew there were casualties but did nothing to stop the operation which he later apologized. >> as the a.t.f. senior executive in charge of the west region i share responsibility for mistakes made in the investigation of "fast and furious." the advantage of hindsight and after a review points to things that i would have done different ly. >> issa and grassilyerly individual over his treatment because the agency tries to

senator grassley and amount of iowa senators support the grain bill, explain why you should -- >> thegest problem a lot of people have is the massive expansion of the food stamp program. we have more feel on food stamps than ever before. they have liberalized the rules, and a lot of people think they need to tighten that up. president obama is trying to undo the work requirement. we think we need instead of putting more people on -- >> governor branstad, they haven't done that. they haven't undone the work requirements. i'm trying to understand the work requirements. you levelled a charge about the welfare work requirement, it turns out that's not true. where did you get your information? >> it absolutely is, i was one of the governors that helped get it and when we passed it, it was designed not to be waived and now the president of the united states by executive order in july weakened that. >> governor tommy thompson was a leader of this in wisconsin, he just won the primary yesterday. this president never supported work for welfare and now he's trying to weaken it. >> again, it was

. >> reporter: the congressman darrell issa and senator charles grassley are livid over this special treatment. not only because of how the atf denigrated and retaliated against whistle-blowers who told the truth but they say mcmahon lied and tried to cover up his role in "fast and furious" to congress. the double-dipping we're told will last about six months, jon. while the atf is not commenting. the lawmakers say rules of atf expressly prohibit this kind of arrangements. it also comes on the heels of deputy director bill hi hoover. he already resigned. we should see the ig report in 30 days. jon: let me get this. the rules prohibit it but they will let it happen anyway? >> well that's, that is exactly what is happening as we speak. he already taken the gig at jpmorgan, according to a letter and complaint we received this morning from darrell issa and senator grassley. they're demanding answers how could this happen when the rules expressly prohibit this kind of double-dipping? jon: your federal government at work. william la jeunesse. thanks. uma: well the labor department is facin

question is how is it the justice department made a mistake in the february 4 letter to senator grassleyet's talk about this, julian. congress will say it is an essential piece of information because you can't lie to congress. if congress is looking into whether they have been lied to by an administration official that would qualify as an he session investigation, no? >> yes, it does. >> what about julian's second point about whether an accommodation has been offered. can justice and mr. holder show they have offered an accommodation on those documents to speak to whether they intentionally misled senator grassley and others? >> they will make that assertion but the answer will be no. the judge is going to get together and say, where can we accommodate. what other document could be given. there could be a compromise that gives documents. the chairman isocusing on the operational aspect and lead together false and fraudulent statement and letters made by the department of justice hierarchy, a letter that was proved by the attorney general that said there was no gun running, no gun walking

grassley. senator grassley. >> mr. gensler, it's been reported that the cft conducted examinations in 2006 and seven. to the cftc conducts these examinations? and if so, why didn't they find out their bank statements were matching up with what was exactly in the bank account? and if? and could be independently account balances with peregrine's bank? >> senator, we have looked at. we have done a number of views, some in the late 90s and the two you have mentioned in the past decade as well. these are not obvious. we rely on the front-line regulators, the nsa and also the a cpa. so it is correct that we could not verify bank statements. sometimes we look at anti-money laundering things like in 2010 was another review. sometimes we end up with an enforcement action, like in 2000 we ended up with an enforcement action against peregrine that was settled back then 12 years ago. looking back on it workpapers i wonder if after that flags of what as better caught in 1999 and 2000 so forth. so at the same question you have a bet

talking with senator charles grassley of iowa. and we have much more.o we want you to enjoy this very unique and special edition of "huckabee" coming to you live from iowa. it was a little over a week ago -- [ applause ] >> mike: that hundreds of thousands if not millions of people lined up at over 1600 click fila stores all over the nation in what critics attempted to paint as a day of hate and intolerance. really? out of all those people who showed up i have not heard of any of the chick-fil-a customers screaming slogans or calling people derogatory names. there were reports of some spontaneous sing of patriotic songs and even stories of people who bought the lunch of a hundred stranges behind them or people who allowed a police officer on his lunch break to move right up to the front of the line so he could get served before h his lunch hour was up. but hate? not from the people who ate chicken sandwiches. oh, this was one loony tune

2011 and now through 2012 we have pursued this from the time i became chairman on behalf of senator grassleyre is an election coming up. but an investigation in which you are stonewalled for nearly two years is inevitablely going to have an intervening period. >> free legal advice, it does have political ramifications. some would say obama administration, it's good to keep them hung out to dry before the election. they have to deal with it politically. in light of that, in light of brian terry family should get answers, why don't you request expedited kgs by the judge and justice department can join in and get a filing from the justice department answering yours and judge has to decide this case. there is no reason to take more than a month. that way it won't be involved in a political aspect and terry family gets an answer? >> we have been assigned a judge. we believe she is fair. she is an obama appointee. our home is we will get expedited consideration because the terry family has waited through this investigation for over 18 months. >> greta: i can tell you they are no hurry unless you a